Billy Graham Library

The main galleries within the library showcase numerous presentations, pictures, music, artifacts, and voices from throughout Graham's ministry. One gallery is entirely devoted to Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of the evangelist. There is a dairy bar café and bookstore called "Ruth's Attic." All visitors enter the Library through doors at the base of a {{convert|40|ft|m|adj=on}} glass cross. Also located on the Library grounds is the Memorial Prayer Garden, where Ruth Graham was buried on June 17, 2007.

File:Gravestone of Ruth Bell Graham IMG 4206.JPG

Ruth Graham was initially opposed to being buried at the library, and instead preferred her home at the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove near Asheville to be her final resting place until just before she died.{{Cite news |last=Stepp |first=Laura Sessions |date=2006-12-13 |title=A Family at Cross-Purposes |language=en-US |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121201338.html |access-date=2023-03-31 |issn=0190-8286}} In March 2009 Wilma "Billie" Barrows, the wife of Billy Graham's longtime Music Director Cliff Barrows, was interred on the Library grounds.

In April 2013, Gospel singer and Graham's regular featured soloist George Beverly Shea was interred there as well.{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nvdaily/obituary.aspx?n=george-beverly-shea&pid=164723747|title=George Beverly Shea's Obituary on Northern Virginia Daily|website=Northern Virginia Daily|access-date=2017-02-28}} Barrows was buried next to his wife on the grounds after his death in November 2016.{{Cite news|url=https://cliffbarrowsmemorial.org/obituary/|title=Obituary - CLIFF BARROWS|work=CLIFF BARROWS|access-date=2017-02-28|language=en-US}}

Graham's funeral following his February 21, 2018 death was conducted on March 2, 2018 in a tent, similar to the tents where he held his first crusades, on the grounds of the Library. Prior to the funeral, Graham had laid in repose in his childhood homeplace next to the library as well as lying in honor at the United States Capital in Washington, D.C. Following the funeral, Graham was buried next to his wife in the Library's Prayer Garden.{{Cite web |date=2018-02-22 |title=Funeral plans announced for evangelist Billy Graham |url=https://www.wbtv.com/story/37566982/funeral-plans-announced-for-evangelist-billy-graham |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=WBTV |language=en}}

Appreciation Walkway at Billy Graham Library IMG 4232.JPG|Appreciation Walkway at the Billy Graham Library leads to the graves of Billy Graham & Ruth Bell Graham

Home of Morrow Coffey Graham, Charlotte, NC IMG 4203.JPG|The home of Morrow Coffey Graham, the mother of Billy Graham, has been preserved at the Graham Library

Desk of Billy Graham, Charlotte, NC IMG 4230.JPG|Replica of the desk of Billy Graham

Graham Bros. Dairy truck in Charlotte, NC IMG 4229.JPG|Model Graham Brothers Dairy truck on display at the Billy Graham Library

• List of Billy Graham's crusades

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• [https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN3126885620070531 Reuters]
• {{cite web |url=http://www.newsobserver.com/lifestyles/religion/story/587336.html |title=Graham was force in U.S. |publisher=News & Observer |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070514111849/http://www.newsobserver.com/lifestyles/religion/story/587336.html |archive-date=May 14, 2007 |url-status=dead}}
• https://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-05-31-billy-graham-library_N.htm?csp=34
• {{cite news|first=Lillian|last=Kwon|url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/billy-graham-friend-to-presidents-pastor-to-many-27737/ |title=Billy Graham: Friend to Presidents, Pastor to Many |newspaper=The Christian Post |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119032825/http://christianpost.com/article/20070601/27737_Billy_Graham:_Friend_to_Presidents,_Pastor_to_Many.htm |date=1 June 2007|archive-date=19 January 2013}}
• http://news14.com/content/special_edition/billy_graham_library_dedication/Default.aspx

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• {{official website}}
• [https://billygraham.org/ Billy Graham Evangelistic Association]
• [https://www.samaritanspurse.org/ Samaritan's Purse]

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